Plasticine crafts for kids: the best ideas

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Every parent wants their child to become a versatile and creative person. To do this, it is necessary to invest in the development of the baby from early childhood. It is best to devote time to the development of fine motor skills, imagination and fantasy. After all, children love to create something new and unique! You can use any materials for creativity: colored paper, pencils, sets of designers and more. But plasticine crafts are the most popular.

Choose plasticine

Today, the market for children's goods is replete with a variety of plasticine of various shapes, colors, sizes and manufacturers. The main characteristics of good and high-quality plasticine are its elasticity and pliability, as well as the ability to quickly restore these properties after hardening. Plasticine should not leave hard-to-remove stains. Grease marks from plasticine should be easily removed with plain water.

For the little ones, soft and not very sticky plasticine of bright colorful shades is best suited. This material is morewill attract their attention and make it easy to create the first plasticine crafts.

Older children who have already mastered the modeling technique well will be happy with the solidifying sculptural clay, as with its help their creations can be kept safe and sound.

Additional materials

Plasticine is not all that a child needs for creativity in the form of modeling. The kid will need some more materials at hand, which are not necessary to buy, they can easily be found in any home. Namely:

• plastic stand;
• stacks;
• decorative elements (beads, beads, sequins and more);
• toothpicks, matches, straws.

What can be done from plasticine

Plasticine, due to its elasticity and pliability, serves as a material for creating a variety of paintings and gizmos.

The modeling of plasticine crafts such as: is especially popular among children.

• Animals.
• Flowers.
• Toys.
• Characters of fairy tales and cartoons.
• Vegetables and fruits.

Moreover, such plasticine crafts for children can have various shapes and sizes. These can be three-dimensional figures, from which you can recreate a scene from a fairy tale (cartoon), or paintings that can also be made in three-dimensional technique or be flat.

How to make a picture from plasticine

Drawing, or rather, sculpting a picture from plasticine is a rather unusual, but very exciting creative process.

There are three different techniques you can use when creating plasticine paintings:

• smear;
• flagellums;
• mosaic.

Smearing looks pretty simple. The child is given a ready-made drawing (so to speak, coloring), and he, gradually smearing plasticine of different colors over the surface, fills in all areas of the drawing.

Paintings and crafts made from plasticine flagella look very neat and unusual. You can decorate an already finished picture with flagella or mold figures from them. The main thing is to teach the child to make flagella.

The mosaic technique is simple and uncomplicated, but with a little patience and perseverance, you can create a real masterpiece. To create a mosaic, the child simply needs to sculpt the balls and attach them to the surface of the picture. Crafts from plasticine balls look more neat if they are made from small balls.

How to make flagella

As mentioned above, flagella are a rather original way to create plasticine crafts. From them you can create figures of various shapes and sizes. And this is very important, because in this way children will be able to learn how to analyze shapes and sizes, be able to find similarities and differences in objects, and correctly compare details.

Flagella can be prepared by hand. To do this, the child will need to pinch off a small piece of plasticine and roll it into a thin long sausage. Or use a regular medical syringe, usingwhich to squeeze out long thin plasticine flagella. Crafts made in this way look more neat and diversify the modeling process.

Plasticine flowers

Plasticine crafts in the form of flowers are the best way to please your mother, grandmother or sister, because all girls love these beautiful and bright plants.

It is very beautiful and easy to create a plasticine rose. There are two ways to do this:

1. We take plasticine of the same color, sculpt a flagellum and a drop. A flat cake should be made from the flagellum, which we wrap around the droplet. The beginning of our rose is laid. Then we roll up another flagellum, knead it and again wrap the middle of the flower. The more flagella, the more magnificent and beautiful the rose will be.
2. Roll up about 5-6 balls of the same size (maybe more). Each ball is flattened and laid out in a row so that each element overlaps the previous one. And then carefully roll them into a single element. Align the petals, and the rose is ready.

It is not necessary to use plasticine of the same color. You can make a decorative beauty rose with petals of all the colors of the rainbow.

Plasticine dandelion. We make a long yellow sausage. We flatten it, giving it a shape close to a rectangle, the edges should be as even as possible. They are best trimmed or trimmed with a stack. From the long edge on one side we make a fringe. It can be cut with scissors. We turn our flower together and get a magnificent and beautifulsymbol of spring.

Chamomile. We take white plasticine, roll up the sausage, divide it into equal parts. Roll them into balls. Then we give each the appearance of a petal, flattening the ball from one end and pinching from the other. We spread the petals in a circle, put an orange ball in the middle, flatten it slightly and make stamens with a toothpick. Chamomile is ready.

Crafts in the form of animals

Chicken. To create it, the child will need plasticine of three colors (yellow, red, green), beads for the eyes, a stack, a cardboard stand.

Let's consider a step-by-step scheme for sculpting a chicken:

• from yellow plasticine we sculpt a small ball (this will be the head) and an oblong volumetric oval, which will become the body of our bird;
• connect them;
• we sculpt neat curly wings from green plasticine and fasten them on both sides to the body;
• we sculpt a beak and a comb from red plasticine, which we attach to the head;
• we make eyes from beads or beads;
• to make the chicken more stable, it must be planted on some kind of stand.

Fish. Aquarium fish are varied, colorful and endlessly attractive. And most importantly, it is very easy to recreate any of them in the form of plasticine crafts. Photos of such beauties can be seen below.

How to make it? The scheme is very simple:

• roll out the plasticine ball, giving the shape of a future fish;
• sculpt fins and tail;
• putting these parts together;
• beads (beads)serve as the eyes of the fish;
• the body of the fish can be decorated with various elements.

Example of plasticine painting

Let's consider how you can make a picture or an application from plasticine, using the example of a space landscape. This theme is very loved by children, because the flight of fancy here is not limited by any framework.

Getting Started:

• Planets: take balls of different colors (blue - Earth, red - Mars, brown - Saturn, etc.). We make flat circles out of them.
• We make the sun from a yellow ball, matches, toothpicks or plasticine flagella can serve as rays.
• Alien ship. Make a flat disk from a plasticine ball, attach a bright-colored hemisphere to it, then attach the legs of the ship (from plasticine or improvised materials). From beads to make portholes or signal lights of the ship.
• Attach all these elements to the board (or stand).

In this composition, you can think of anything: mysterious animals, aliens, astronauts and much more.

Children's imagination is boundless and multifaceted, therefore, in order for the child to fully grow and develop, parents are simply obliged to provide him with everything he needs. And plasticine is one of the most accessible and important materials for a baby's self-expression.